Posts Tagged ‘bitcoin’

Much like Bobby Kotick’s Flickr account, this is simultaneously sinister and hilarious. Esports league ESEA, also creator of an anti-cheating tool for assorted online games such as CSGO and Team Fortress 2, has been caught in a spot of apparent cheating itself. Specifically, by secretly having its users’ PCs mine for Bitcoins while it runs. (And if you don’t understand what that means, you really need to read yourself some more internet, kiddo). Wuh-oh. The people behind it, however, tried to explain it as an April Fool’s stunt gone wrong. Then, after undaunted internet detectives kept on digging, later admitted that wasn’t the case.Read the rest of this entry »